By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
March 19 --
After UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon met
with Italian
foreign
minister Paolo
Gentiloni on
March 18,
Gentiloni told
the Italian
media that he
had raised the
case of two
Italian
marines on
trial in India
for murder to
Ban.
Gentiloni
said
"he had sought
new
intervention
by UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon, who
'intends to do
it in the
coming
weeks.'"
Inner City
Press at the
March 19 UN
noon briefing
asked Ban
Ki-moon's
deputy
spokesperson
if it's true
that Ban
intends some
"new
intervention"
in the coming
weeks.
Haq
said the issue
was raised in
the meeting
with Ban, but
that Ban's
position
"remains the
same."
That is, from
more than
a year
ago, that it
requires a
"mutually
agreeable"
solution. So,
what "new
intervention"?
This is a
pattern of
sleight of
hand, and
misleading
reporting.
With Italy
already beginning
a campaign
against Sweden
and the
Netherlands
for two UN
Security
Council seats
of the WEOG
group, could a
win be used on
this issue, if
it takes that
long? Or does
using the UN
in this way
impact on the
campaign?
Back
on January 6
with an India
trip for UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon just announced,
there was
another
off-camera comment
by Ban's
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric,
that India's
prosecution of
Italian sailor
who killed
Indian
fishermen is
an unresolved
issued that
requires a
mutual
solution.
While this was
reported in
Italian and
other media as
a new fear, a
new position,
when Inner
City Press
asked on
January 9,
Ban's deputy
spokesperson
Farhan Haq
confirmed it
was only a
statement from
February 2014,
re-read and
re-heated. Video here.
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